Selected among 2 % most cited scientists and for career long citation for 2019, 2020, 2021.
Winner of the 2nd German-African Innovation Promotion Prize – March 2020,
Winner of the Tunisian President Excellence Researcher Award 2017 “Scientific Research and Technology, July 22nd, 2017
Winner of the “SCOPUS Award” for Science contribution to: Biotechnology, Microbiology and Environmental Sciences, Tunis 11th December 2007.
Winner of the award of the French Magazine “La Recherche” Field « Environment » 2006 spensorized by « Veolia Environnement »:
Winner of the Tunisian President Excellence Researcher Award 2006 “Scientific Research and Technology, July 22nd, 2006 For the Laboratory of Bioprocesses founded and headed by Sami Sayadi: 13 July 2006
Head of the « Pôle d’Excellence Régional AUF »: Environmental and Industrial Bioprocesses from 2007 to 2012.
Director of the 1st International French-Tunisian Joint Laboratory LMI Cosys-Med “Contaminants et ecosystemes marins sud mediterraneens” (2014-2019)
Editor-in-Chief of the Springer” Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration” ISSN: 2365-6433 (print version) ISSN: 2365-7448 (electronic version)
UNIVEXPO Award «Valorization of research results », Sfax, July 2004 and July 2013
Award of the Tunisian Association of Inventors, September 2004
“National Medal of the order of merit (4th category)” in science and education, (July 2001)
General Scientific Coordinator of the Tunisian- Japanese global project 6 million US$: Valorization of Bio-resources in Semi Arid and Arid Land for Regional Development (2010-2015).
Founder and Scientific Coordinator of a MASTER’S degree on “Environmental Biotechnology” at the Higher Institute of Biotechnology at Sfax (ISBS) from 2007 to 2013.
Scientific coordinator of 2 European Union FP6 projects PURATREAT and PROMEMBRANE.
Member of the Board of Directors of the IRA: Institute of Arid Regions of Medenine (Tunisia), 2015-2018.
Member of the Scientific Council of the International Centre of Environmental technologies of Tunis (CITET), 2014-2018.
Member of the Board of Governors of the ICGEB (International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology), 2010-2018.
Director of the 1st Biotechnology Center in Tunisia (Centre of Biotechmology of Sfax CBS) for 8 successive years (2010-2018).
